I'm kind of surprised at the majority being so massively in favor here.

I've been a big Dupuis fan for years and cheered on his successes this year just as hard as anyone. It's genuine when I say that this guy deserves a paycheck. Many parts of me wanted it to be with the Penguins, but I figured Shero would balk at the term.

3.75 AND 4 yrs at age 34 after a career year? is that kind of production sustainable?

I will happily eat crow and wish nothing more than to be wrong...but this one worries me.

juicebox1 wrote:I'm kind of surprised at the majority being so massively in favor here.

I've been a big Dupuis fan for years and cheered on his successes this year just as hard as anyone. It's genuine when I say that this guy deserves a paycheck. Many parts of me wanted it to be with the Penguins, but I figured Shero would balk at the term.

3.75 AND 4 yrs at age 34 after a career year? is that kind of production sustainable?

I will happily eat crow and wish nothing more than to be wrong...but this one worries me.

juicebox1 wrote:I'm kind of surprised at the majority being so massively in favor here.

I've been a big Dupuis fan for years and cheered on his successes this year just as hard as anyone. It's genuine when I say that this guy deserves a paycheck. Many parts of me wanted it to be with the Penguins, but I figured Shero would balk at the term.

3.75 AND 4 yrs at age 34 after a career year? is that kind of production sustainable?

I will happily eat crow and wish nothing more than to be wrong...but this one worries me.

He is one of the most fit and least injury prone penguins

Meh. Not only is cap gonna rise, so is the floor. You can always off load him.

taz71 wrote:Been stated Depress will be top 4. Been stated Letang will mentor Depress.

Letang played his best defense when paired with Despres.

If Letang and Despres don't work out together, what about Orpik with Letang and Martin with Despres? Paul Martin is a responsible guy who can provide a good example for Despres and not hang him out to dry. In the mean time, Letang with Orpik has worked well in the past.

On the 3rd D pairing, one of Engo or Niskanen should go. Unfortunately since Engo is cheaper, it will probably be Nisky. Got to make room for the young guys. Dumoulin is ready and Harrington is supposed to be very mature for his age. Plus, Bortuzzo is still just hanging around.

If you can move Nisky for a young forward on an affordable contract to dress out the 3rd line, maybe develop into a top 6 guy in the future, I think you do it.

This gets a big ole meh from me. Love Dupuis and I'm glad he's sticking around, but this team needed change and its not getting it, Bennett's shot as Sid's RW (his preferred position) is already gone, its pretty obvious they are going to continue signing Kunitz and Dupuis until Sid decides to retire, and now UFA is boring for me.

It definitely doesn't further the goal of young and cheap, which got real important earlier yesterday.Then again, they don't appear to have any top 6 prospects in the system for the foreseeable future.

Its a good signing. Dupuis is a versatile guy he can play on the first line or he can play on the fourth line. The UFA market is terrible this year. If Shero didn't resign him, he would be paying crazy money for someone who isn't as good as Pascal.

Wyopen wrote:Well I see we have the same team from last year, so much for change. As I said in previous posts look up Einstein's definition of insanity.

There would be about 25 other teams who would love to have this type of insanity.Yes the penguins ran into a team playing better than them in the ECF, but a few bounces here or there and that series is a lot closer. That being said Boston played perfect hockey and it's pretty tough to beat a team playing perfect hockey.

In a sense, what Shero did was trade TK, give him TK's salary as a raise and throw in $250K and a LNTC for good measure. Of course you remove TK's body from the equasion and you still need to plug one more in, but a cheaper TK version can certainly be found somewhere in the loop.

I'm also thinking that, with Letang on for the long haul and with the org high on these guys sitting on the fringe of the NHL (Dumoulin, Harrington, Maatta) Niskanen could very easily be moved at some point, which frees up a good $1,500,000 once you replace him one of those aforementioned.

skullman80 wrote:I love Duper, but I don't like a 4 year deal at his age.

I'm not either, but the guy has really earned it. As Mikey said, he made peanuts by comparrison to other top-line wingers who do PK work. I almost shed a tear thinking about how he and his family celebrated this last night with their kids. He's now going to go into retirement with an additional $15,000,000...which is probably not far from what he's made in his entire career up to this point. If it hurts us for a year or two...I can live with it for Pascal.